Was that Panda Party in August a "once in a life time event" too?

why do you spoiled, rich, ny wannabe's think it's ok to invade someone's neighborhood and make us miserable? The police have your number. Can't take it? leave, leave, leave, leave pleeeeeeeeeze!!!!

To franklinteany (a.k.a. cranky old man):

You are unbelievable!

Do you have any idea at all how much your opinion puts you in the minority? Even among people (I'd bet) who, (yes!) have jobs to go to and do work for the betterment of their communities, and who chose to stay in that night?

But that probably doesn't give you pause, does it?

Un-be-lievable!

I guess everyone should have been giving silent high-fives and shushing anyone who dared to raise their voice in jubilation. Yeah. Right. OK.

I'm a huge fan of consideration, but taking it to the extreme that one should not feel ok about celebrating in the streets and making a some noise for a once-in-a-lifetime event is a *little* on the uptight and extreme side, I'd say.

Maybe you should move to Singapore. Probably a better fit.

There were cops everywhere last night (including in Harlem, where I was.) When they started to disperse people, at 2 AM, people listened. These hipster douches? They didn't. That's why this happened.

That's because the police know they would get their asses kicked (and probably shot) if they showed up in Harlem last night in riot gear.

Interesting that the cops in riot gear show up in Williamsburg, the lilly white hipsterville, while up in Harlem, things were a-ok.

Hipsters are the new oppressed. Rise up! Those in skinny jeans, with uneven haircuts, and oh so lovable nihilistic senses of irony will one day overcome. Lets put a hipster in the White House in 2016!

There's nothing white people love more than feeling oppressed.

Um...don't you need a permit to assemble? Weren't the cops just doing their jobs? Would someone of public authority, who is sure to be closely scrutinized, *really* attack a guy for no good reason?

Last night was super exciting, but it doesn't give you license to hit the streets and cause a big ruckus. Maybe a little ruckus, but not the kind that lasts over four hours.

Call me a social conservative, but I was up voting for BO at 6:15 that morning.

any person wearing a pirate costume going out in the street to celebrate an election victory deserve to get the shit beaten out of him by anyone who so chooses. i only wish i had been there...i might have broken his nose

The average cop is a slug. They don't know right from wrong. Because they are a cop they think that everyone out there is a criminal if they don't jump when they say jump.

I had a run in with two different off duty cops working at a bar when they started getting in my face for no reason at all. I told them if they liked their part time jobs they better shape up. They asked the bartenders who I was and they changed their attitudes very quickly after getting their response.

Don't screw with those fools because they can cause you aggravation over nothing. I'm glad I don't have any cops for friends. Most of them are just looneys.

"Common sense for any rational New Yorker would dictate leaving an area as soon as you hear sirens, horses, and helicopters."

Any rational New Yorker? Bah. Any real New Yorker would say "screw the cops (most of whom live on Long Island or Staten Island anyway so they're not real New Yorkers), it's my city and I'll do what I want."

Sad that they hipsters are becoming the only ones with guts in this town.

"No surprise at all. Cult of Obama members are seething with rage and will spread the violence."

Wait, now you're calling the NYPD is the "Cult of Obama?" Come on, now this thread is becoming completely silly.

No surprise at all. Cult of Obama members are seething with rage and will spread the violence. Their man won but now they don't know where to direct their hate.

Everyone on here is a hipster. That word doesn't mean anything anyhow. And the people making the noise complaints... weren't they hipsters too? I mean... they live in the Burg after all.

It's like calling everyone with long hair a hippy. Whatever.

It was one night.

One historic night.

the celebrations in my neighborhood (prospect heights/crown heights) took place right in front of the police station, and you know what the police did? chilled, watched, chatted. it was mostly detectives, but several beat cops rolled by too. people were happy. let the people be happy.

Anyone who would stay around in that crowd once the cops in riot gear show up is risking a very unpleasant experience. Common sense for any rational New Yorker would dictate leaving an area as soon as you hear sirens, horses, and helicopters.

boohoo he got pushed. so fucking what.

#43, I'm seriously hoping you went to the hospital, got pictures, have witnesses, and sue their asses for as much as you can get.

ugh...hipsters...

Ok, so that's kind of #$%ked-up thought. But I'm being realistic about the NYPD. Before yesterday, I had great respect for cops, especially being a former reporter. Now, not so much. Hipster idiocy aside, the level of aggression was totally uncalled for.

I had the pleasure of getting my head split open and arrested for defending someone's right to take photographs of the scene after the riot cops started arresting people. The cop raged at me when I said this person had "the first amendment right" to take photographs, the officer pushed me several times, and then tackled me to the street, splitting my head on the curb, and handcuffed me. When my friend simply asked why they were arresting me, they threw him to the ground and cuffed him too. We spent two hours in a holding cell (with my head gushing blood) and then were discharged with a summons for disorderly conduct. I feel pretty violated right now, but have great hope for the future and the coming era of Obama. I just hope, in a weird way, that the cops were doing this as protocol (bust a few heads, everybody learns the lesson and goes home), instead of some pent-up aggression against liberal-minded folk. I believe in hope.